2.Noun. An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system. "A component or constituent element of a system"

6. Noun. A place or state of being that an individual or object is better suited towards. ¹

7. Noun. (legal) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded a violation of law only if each element can be proved. ¹

8. Noun. (set theory) One of the objects in a set. ¹

9. Noun. A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic. ¹

10. Noun. A short form of heating element, a component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it. ¹

11. Noun. (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by a matching pair of tags. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Element

1. a substance that cannot be separated into simpler substances by chemical means [n -S]

Medical Definition of Element

1. One of the 103 known chemical substances that cannot be divided into simpler substances by chemical means. A substance whose atoms all have the same atomic number.
Examples: hydrogen, lead, uranium.(See atom, matter, nuclide.)
(16 Dec 1997)

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Literary usage of Element

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1.The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)"BOOK REVIEWS between the time when the common element was first noticed, and its
final ... The most economic method of memorizing the common element, ..."

2.An Introduction to Psychology by Mary Whiton Calkins (1908)"CHAPTER VIII SENSATIONAL element AND SENSATION WITH the end of our outline study
of all reputed sense- elements of consciousness comes a natural opportunity ..."

3.Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)"On passing from one element to the next higher in atomic weight the two ...
N is a whole number which increases by unity on passing from one element to the ..."

4.The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)"Besides being indicated t ill 3 sm; and the third or morning watch till about 6
am Seven consecutive days form the WEEK, or second element of the Jewish ..."

5.The History of the English Language by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1894)"Taking all these facts into account, the native element, estimated from the
dictionary as about twenty-five per cent, would doubtless be increased to a ..."

6.An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)"CONNEXION OR REPUGNANCY OF IDEAS, A SECOND element IN KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge,
according to Locke, is concerned with the Know- ideas, or particular ..."